 needfest is in general a day of week of celebration for many it signifies the transition from one calendar year to another and is usually considered the start of the new year all work tends to come to a halt even without the celebrations of this period as merchants complete their bookkeeping for the previous year and close up shop to accomplish this overindulgence and merrymaking is the rule during this week food stored after harvest is brought out for granddinners while taverns and theaters are more often than not full to bursting middle-class and noble citizens often have a tradition of decorating their homes with yellow candles boughs of evergreen branches or for the more well-off men magical lights and ornaments the clergies of heironeous pholtus and trithereon have an annual tradition of attempting to perform good deeds or lawful deeds for the former two each day of this week however given the rivalries between pholtus and both heironeous and trithereon this often descends into humorous bouts over the best way to accomplish such good deeds even occasionally falling to blows if their goals conflict in the slightest category holidays 